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Mrs. Hardy BuckThe remains of Mrs. Hardy Buck, who died at a Little Rock hospital on Wednesday afternoon of last week, were brought to Arkadelphia that night, and was taken in charge by the McDaniel, Murry and Lee undertaking establishment.

The deceased is survived by five children, Arthur and Ed Buck of this city, Homer Buck of Oklahoma, Carl Buck of Graysonia and Mrs. Ruby Ray of Coleman, Texas, and one brother, Hardy Wilson of Coleman, Texas.

The funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon and the remains were laid to rest in the Golden cemetery.The obituary was published in the Southern Standard on 11 Apr 1929.

There are only the two photos in my collection of Madgie. In each, she is shown with one or both of her children.

Madgie had a twin sister, Maggie. They were one of three sets of twins in their extended McBrayer/Herrington family, and older half sisters of my grandmother, Addie Louise Herrington.

I don't know which sister was born first, but they arrived on a hot summer day in late July 1898 in Clark County, daughters of Julia Ann Callaway and Robert Bruce McBrayer.

Maggie died in 1965. Madgie barely made it out of her teens.Madgie McBrayer married Homer Buck on 10 Jul 1913, just a couple of weeks short of her 15th birthday.

I don't know the names of either of Madgie's children, the youngest of whom died in 1918 also, and whose gravestone in DeGray Cemetery simply says "Baby Buck."

Madgie's stone was equally simple.

Her obituary appeared in the Southern Standard on 24 Oct 1918.

Mrs. Homer Buck died at her home in this city on Wednesday night of last week with pneumonia. The deceased was 20 years of age and leaves a husband and two children, besides father, mother, three sisters and three brothers. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon and the remains were buried at DeGray Cemetery.